The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda makes clear there cannot be development without peace and security. And disarmament is integral to achieving peace and security. An over-armed world is an unstable and insecure one. Disarmament is critical to creating a safer, more prosperous, more equitable and more peaceful world.

SPOTLIGHT

Ebooks for the 2015 Disarmament Yearbook Parts I and II now available for free download

High Representative’s statement to the High Level Meeting to Commemorate the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

UN Messenger of Peace Michael Douglas message on a world free of nuclear weapons

Deputy Secretary-General’s remarks to the High Level Plenary Meeting to Commemorate the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

Secretary-General’s message on the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

Statement attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on the adoption by the Security Council of a resolution on the CTBT

General Assembly Plans High-Level Meeting to Mark 3rd Annual International Day for Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, 26 September

UN Security Council adopts a resolution on the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT)

S/RES/2310 (2016)

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DISARMAMENT IN THE NEWS

Imaging drones to spot signs of explosive chemicals leaking from landmines

UNFOLD ZERO interviews UN General Assembly President

Project to connect American youth with Atomic Bomb survivors (Hibakusha) winding down

japantimes.co.jp

Showing Hiroshima’s Reality

FEATURED CONTENT

The First Committee of the 71st United Nations General Assembly

Disarmament Education

Arms Trade Treaty

UN Report on Military Expenditures

UNODA UPDATE

Technologies of Peace – September 16 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York

Nagasaki Peace Messenger visits United Nations Office at Geneva

Winners of the Poster for Peace Contest honored

Side event highlights EU support for the Biological Weapons Convention implemented by UNODA

European Union adopts 2.3 million Euro voluntary contribution in support of the Biological Weapons Convention

ANNOUNCEMENTS

First Committee Side Events Calendar

EVENTS